“In the early eighties the West Berlin–based photographer Udo Hesse went with his camera through East Berlin as through a country that reminded him in some places of the familiar and at the same time repeatedly estranged him. The post-war lasted long in both parts of the city, and in the eastern part considerably longer. A photographic document has emerged that tells, laconically, quietly and yet impressively, of a bygone time in a bygone country.”